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Parrish Susan Scott |
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American curiosity : cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world / / Susan Scott Parrish |
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Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 2006 |
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©2006 |
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ISBN |
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0-8078-5678-9 |
1-4696-0095-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (342 p.) |
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Collana |
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Natural history - United States - History |
Science - Social aspects - United States - History |
Intercultural communication - United States - History |
Imperialism - History |
Electronic books. |
United States Ethnic relations |
United States Intellectual life |
Great Britain Intellectual life |
Great Britain Colonies America |
United States Relations Great Britain |
Great Britain Relations United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The British metropolis and its "America," 1584-1763. A strange overplus ; Nature's admirable regularity ; London's curious -- English bodies in America. The English humoral body ; Contagious climates ; The English body saved ; Uncouth symptoms -- Atlantic correspondence networks and the curious male colonial. Mutual commerce ; Not one rational eye ; The empirical advantage ; Becoming an F.R.S. ; Us Americans -- The nature of candid friendship. Familiar |
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